Effect of Valve Suture Technique on Incidence of Paraprosthetic Regurgitation and 10-Year Survival

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1171-1179

  Nair, Sukumaran K ^a   Bhatnagar, Gauraang ^a   Valencia, Oswaldo ^a   Chandrasekaran, Venkatachalam ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRUPTED SUTURE TECHNIQUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORBIDITY; PARAPROSTHETIC REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; REOPERATION; SAINT JUDE HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; SEMICONTINUOUS SUTURE TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURING METHOD; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77949549056     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.12.069     Document Type: Article

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